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Jack The Ripper Book Report

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Jack the Ripper was a serial killer in london in 1888 and is widely considered one of the scariest killers. In the book The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson is a book about jack the ripper like killings and about solving who it is and stopping him or her. On the website http://www.jack-the-ripper.org/ jack the ripper killings are shown and the newspapers about the new murderer in east end. On http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/ripper_jack_the.shtml jack the rippers overall history is covered. The book The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson is a book about a present day Jack the Ripper in london. For instance in the book on page 100 Jerome states “Catherine Eddowes was killed between 1:40 and 1:45” This is back in 1888. The
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